Cebu Pacific launches new flights from Davao

“It opens more avenues for business and tourism arrivals, for Davao most especially. Being the gateway in Southern Mindanao, everyone going around has to touch base with our city first,” Tecson said. Dumaguete City Mayor Felipe Antonio Remollo, for his part said, the city tourism offices of the cities will work closely to promote tourism in each city, thus, inviting more tourists.

“To cater the growing number of tourists, we will continue to encourage investors to put up hotels, convention centers to accommodate the people,” Remollo said adding Dumaguete has a bed capacity of over 5,000 rooms. He added that with the air link between Davao and Dumaguete, connectivity between Mindanao and Siquijor will be enhanced. The flights will be carried by the Cebgo fleet of ATR aircraft. Aside from the direct Davao flights, CEB also launched flights between Cebu and Masbate, Zamboanga and Cotabato, and Cagayan de Oro and Zamboanga. Dayanghirang, however, asked the airline to push more routes to and from Davao.

One of the routes pushed is the Davao-Bohol air link. “We hope to launch more routes to and from Davao City,” Lagamon said. Go Hotels, a sister company of CEB also operates in Dumaguete, Tacloban. Davao City as Mindanao hub Lagamon reported that for 21 years, CEB have a seamless network (direct and connecting flights) linking Davao to six hubs, 37 domestic destinations and 26 international routes. “We are launching 894 flights per week to and from Mindanao,” she said. This year, Lagamon said, CEB targets to serve 20 million passengers. For the first quarter of this year, a total of 4.8 million passengers were already served by the airline amounting to P6.8 billion revenue, 55 percent of the total revenue are from domestic market share.